Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

- Ford, Henry

Best Quotes about Mistakes

No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.

Marden, Orison Swett

Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth. But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation.

Daumal, Rene

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

Al Franken

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Bankhead, Tallulah

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

Battista, Orlando A.

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.

Daly, Chuck

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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A man who never made a mistake, never made anything worth a darn.

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A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Pope, Alexander

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The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Waitley, Denis

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It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

Rostand, Jean

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A mistake at least proves that somebody stopped talking long enough to DO something.

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If I had my life to live over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.

Nadine Stair

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Jung, Carl

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If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Wooden, John

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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We don't make mistakes, we only have happy accidents.

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An old error is always more popular than a new truth.

Proverb, German

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If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

Mary Pickford

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The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.

Hein, Piet

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The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Knight, Philip

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I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

Bennett, James Gordon

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Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.

Pareto, Vilfredo

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I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.

Gillies, Jerry

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Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow -- after you have done your best to achieve success today.

Maltz, Maxwell

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It is necessary for you to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.

Rickover, Hyman G.

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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

Walter Bagehot

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To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.

Burnett, Leo

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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Carnegie, Dale

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I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

Sculley, John

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The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, that were the offer made me, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask, should be the privilege of an author, to correct in a second edition, certain errors of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Peter McWilliams

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People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success.

Gillies, Jerry

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It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

Bradshaw, John

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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

Pearl Buck

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The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake...

Boswell, Nelson

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She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

Henry James

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Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.

Augsburger, David

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I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.